Question

informational: this passage is from the man who thought like a ship by loren g. stufly
the kyrenia was named after kyrenia harbor in cyprus, the harbor nearest to where the ship was found
he lacked any formal training, yet in a harborside castle in northern cyprus. j. richard steffy, known to all his friends as dick, became the first person to ever reconstruct an ancient ship from its sunken fragments, to take its fulfilled hull from the sea floor and piece it together in its original form.
today, the darkened timbers stand as a monument to history, a window into the ancient world, but they also stand as the culmination of a dream. for an electrician from a tiny pennsylvania town, this rotted wood changed everything.
the kyrenia ship was the first ship in human history to be built twice. she rests aloft on black iron stanchions, giving her the illusion of sailing on air.
during dicks reconstruction process, though, the fragments were supported by a cradle of wooden battens that were really his analytical equations expressed in wood. the whole thing could be adjusted as he corrected his calculations, which was inevitable because he was trying to resign several thousand broken nail shafts and mortise joints.
before she sank, the ship probably had traded at the greek islands of samos, rhodes, and naxos, then headed to cyprus. a freak trader of her
the chronological structure of the passage can best be described as
a linear: the passage recounts the kyrenias demise, rediscovery, and reconstruction
b linear: the passage narrates j. richard steffys journey from small town electrician to kyrenia reconstructor
c nonlinear: flashbacks are used to illustrate what along the journey would have been like
d nonlinear: the kyrenias reconstruction is discussed before its formation is described

Explanation:

The passage first introduces the Kyrenia, then tells about J. Richard Steffy (Dick) who reconstructed it, and finally describes the ship's reconstruction details. It doesn't follow a simple linear sequence of events from start to finish in a straightforward chronological order. Instead, it jumps around (e.g., first talks about the ship's naming, then about Dick, then more about the ship's reconstruction). So it's non - linear. And it's not using flashbacks (no indication of going back in time from a future point in the narrative).

Answer:

D. non - linear: the Kyrenia's reconstruction is discussed before its discovery is described.